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Mark P. Leone (born 1940) is an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Lone was first introduced to anthropology at the University of Arizona while excavating on a Western Apache Reservation and later focused in Processual Archaeology. When Leone began in 1981 the “Archaeology in Annapolis” project, he was a Post-Processualsit. In 1976, Leone began teaching at the University of Maryland, where he became the Chair of the Department of Anthropology between 1993 and 2003 as well as a member of the University Senate in 2000.

Education

Leone earned his B.A. in 1963 at Tufts University in history. He received his his M.A. in 1966 and Ph.D. in 1968, both from the University of Arizona in anthropology.

Academic career

Leone was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University from 1968-1975 before moving to the University of Maryland as an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1976 to 1990. In addition, Loene worked as an Instructor for the Smithsonian Resident Associate Program in fall of 1983 and as adjunct faculty at Anne Arundel Community College in fall 1983. He became a full Professor in 1990. He was Acting Chairman for the Department of Anthropology from 1978 to 1980, Chair from August 1993 to 2003, and Chair-elect, College Park Senate in 1999 and 2000. At the University of Maryland Field School in Urban Historical Archaeology, he has been the Director since 1983. Leone's research areas include North American archaeology, historical archaeology, and outdoor history museums.

Positions and offices held in professional societies

  • National Science Foundation, Advisory Panel for Anthropology. 1977-1979.
  • Governor's Consulting Committee on Historic Places in the State of Maryland(nomination panel for the National Register of Historic Places), 1978-1990.
  • American Association of University Professors, College Park Chapter, Secretary 1979; President 1980-1981.
  • Board of Managers, Anthropological Society of Washington; President-Elect 1983-1984; President 1984-1985.
  • Member, Executive Committee, Society for American Archaeology, 1983-1986.
  • Chairman, Government Affairs Committee, Society for American Archaeology, 1986-1988.
  • Member, Board of Directors, Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, 1985-1988.
  • Treasurer-Elect, 1988; Acting Treasurer, 1989; Treasurer, 1989-1992; Society for American Archaeology.

Consultative positions

  • Intergraphix Design Associates. Museum exhibit design for Anasazi Heritage Center, Dolores, Colorado, Summer, Fall, 1982.
  • Historic Annapolis, Inc., for historical archaeology in Annapolis, Maryland, 1981-present.
  • Office of the Mayor of Baltimore, Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology. A public interpretive program for historical archaeology in downtown Baltimore, Maryland, 1983-1984.
  • Consultant, Jefferson-Patterson Historical Park and Museum, St. Leonard's, Maryland, 1984-1985, 9 months.

Other media

Interviews

  • 2007 Archaeology and Democracy. An Interview with Mark P. Leone. Archaeological Dialogues 14(1):39-59.

Exhibits

  • 2008 “Seeking Liberty: Annapolis, An Imagined Community.” Guest Curator. Banneker-Douglass Museum, the State of Maryland’s Center for African American History and Culture. Annapolis, Maryland, March 4 to November 28, 2008.

Film

  • 1986 Annapolis: Reflections of the Age of Reason. Script of 12-slide projector, 20-minute audio/visual introduction to the material culture of 18th century Annapolis for visitors to the Historic District of Annapolis, Maryland. Produced by Telesis, Inc. Sponsored by Historic Annapolis, Inc., and the University of Maryland. Videotape transfer, 1991. Mounted in the Visitors' Center, Maryland Statehouse, 1992.

Guidebook

  • 1984 Archaeological Annapolis: A Guide to Seeing and Understanding Three Centuries of Change with Parker B. Potter, Jr. Historic Annapolis, Inc., and the University of Maryland. (A guidebook to the Historic District of Annapolis, Maryland) Reprinted, 1989. Reprinted in Contemporary Archaeology in Theory, edited by Robert W. Preucel and Ian Hodder. Blackwell Publishers, 1996.

Research projects

  • Western Apache ethnoarchaeology. Doris Duke Oral History Project, Arizona State Museum. Spring, 1968.
  • Mormon cultural ecology in the 19th century. Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Summer 1969; Sept.-Jan. 1970; Summer 1972. Archival work on 19th-century Mormonism and field research on Arizona Mormons.
  • Conference on Marginal Religious Movements in America Today. Organized with Irving I. Zaretsky, Princeton University, April, 1971.
  • Evolution of Mormon Society. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1975-1976.
  • Ethnographic uses of American history, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. Graduate Research Board, University of Maryland, College Park, Summer 1977.
  • Ethnographic research on the uses of history at St. Mary's City, Maryland. Graduate Research Board, University of Maryland, College Park, Summer 1981.
  • Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park. Third Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Reading, U.K., December, 1982.
  • Historical archaeology and program of public interpretation within the Historic District of Annapolis, Maryland. Reynolds Tavern site (1743) and Victualling Warehouse site (1790).
  • Excavations in eighteenth century sites in Annapolis and their interpretation, including Victualling Warehouse (1790), and Jonas Green Print Shop (1720-1830), and Governor Calvert site (1720-1850).
  • Archaeological excavation of the 1694 settlement plan of Annapolis; eighteenth century sites; and associated analysis and interpretation, including to the visiting public.
  • Archaeological excavation and interpretation at Jonas Green Print Shop, Hyde House (1740), State House Inn (1740) sites.
  • Excavation and public interpretation of Charles Carroll of Carrollton house and garden for 250th anniversary of the birth of this signer of the Declaration of Independence.
  • Excavation at Proctor's Tavern (1680) in Annapolis and computerization of data from Archaeology in Annapolis.
  • Excavation at Sands House (1720); 22 West Street (1720); Hyde House (1740) in Annapolis.
  • African-American Historical Archaeology, Franklin Street site (1780-1970).
  • “Archaeological Investigations at Wye Hall,” with Jessica Neuwirth. Funded by Diane Brendsel. June 2000- June 2002.
  • “Archaeological Investigations at Wye Hall: the Quarter.” Funded by Diane Brendsel to the University of Maryland Foundation. 2003 - 2004.
  • “Archaeological Investigations at Wye Hall: the Quarter, the Avenue, and the Shoreline of Wye Island.” Funded by Diane Brendsel to the University of Maryland Foundation. 2004 - 2005.

Editorial activity

  • Advisory Editor, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 1979-1982.
  • Advisory Editor, Studies in Historical Archaeology, Stanley South, Editor. Academic Press, 1979-1985.
  • Advisory Editor, Series entitled "Social Archaeology," Ian Hodder, Editor. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1986.
  • Editorial Board, Rural History, Cambridge University Press, 1989-present.
  • Editorial Board, International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 1997-present.
  • Editorial Board, Winterthur Portfolio, 1995-present.
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Social Archaeology. 2000-

Books

Series Co-Editor with Joan Gero and Robin Torrence. WAC 5 (World Archaeological Congress 2003) series of fifteen volumes. University College Press, London.

  • Contemporary Archaeology. Southern Illinois University Press. 1972.
  • Religious Movements in Contemporary America. Princeton University Press. 1974.
  • The Recovery of Meaning: Historical Archaeology in the Eastern United States. Smithsonian Institution Press. Paperback edition 1994. Reprinted with a new Prologue, Percheron Press, 2003. 1988.
  • Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. 1999.

Publications

Books

Edited refereed chapters in books

  • Apachean Culture History and Ethnology - Western Apache Ecology: From Horticulture to Agriculture, pp. 69-73. University of Arizona Press. 1971.
  • In Apachean Culture History and Ethnology. University of Arizona Press. 1971.
  • Archaeology as the Science of Technology: Mormon Town Plans and Fences, pp. 125-150. 1973.
  • The Economic Basis for the Evolution of Mormon Culture, pp. 722-756. Princeton University Press. 1974.
  • Forward. In Research Strategies in Historical Archaeology. Academic Press. 1977.
  • Time in American Archaeology. In Social Archaeology: Beyond Subsistence and Dating, pp. 25-36. Academic Press. 1978.
  • Archaeology's Relationship to the Present and the Past. In Modern Material Culture , pp. 5-13. Academic Press. 1981.
  • Persistent Peoples - Mormon "Peculiarity": Recapitulation of Subordination, pp. 78-83. University of Arizona Press. 1981.
  • The Research Potential of Anthropological Museum Collections - The Relationship Between Artifacts and the Public in Outdoor History Museums, pp. 301-313. Reprinted, 1991, A Living History Reader, Vol. 1. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History: New York Academy of Sciences. 1981.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Symbolic and Structural Archaeology - Childe's Offspring, pp. 179-184. Cambridge University Press. 1981.
  • Shipwreck Anthropology - Land and Water, Urban Life and Boats: Underwater Reconnaissance in the Patuxent River on Chesapeake Bay, pp. 173-188. University of New Mexico Press. 1983.
  • Ideology, Representation and Power in Prehistory - Interpreting Ideology in Historical Archaeology: Using the Rules of Perspective in the William Paca Garden in Annapolis, Maryland, pp. 25-35. Cambridge University Press. 1984.
  • The Analysis of Prehistoric Diets - Ethnographic Inference and Analogy in Analyzing Prehistoric Diets, pp. 423-431. Academic Press. 1985.
  • Historical Archaeology West of the Blue Ridge: A Regional Example from Rockbridge County - Varied Epistemologies in Historical Archaeology, pp. 91-98. Washington and Lee University Press. 1985.
  • American Archaeology Past, Present, and Future - Symbolic, Structural, and Critical Archaeology, pp. 415-438. Washington Reprinted in Reader in Archaeological Theory, Post-Processual and Cognitive Approaches, edited by David S. Whitley, pp. 49-68. Routledge, 1998: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1986.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • A Key Into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets - Public Interpretation: A Plurality of Meanings, pp. 165-167. Washington, CT: American Indian Archaeological Institute. 1987.
  • Method and Theory for Activity Area Research: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach - Rule by Ostentation: The Relationship Between Space and Sight in Eighteenth Century Landscape Architecture in the Chesapeake Region of Maryland, pp. 604-633. Columbia University Press. 1987.
  • Consumer Choice in Historical Archaeology - Middle-Range Theory in Historical Archaeology, pp. 397-410. New York: Plenum Press. 1987.
  • Mirror and Metaphor - Forks, Clocks, and Power, pp. 45-61. Lanham, MD: University Press of America. 1987.
  • Recovery of Meaning - The Georgian Order as the Order of Merchant Capitalism in Annapolis, Maryland, pp. 235-261. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1988.
  • Critical Traditions in Contemporary Archaeology - Living History and Critical Archaeology and the Reconstruction of the Past, pp. 117-135. Cambridge University Press. 1989.
  • Perspectives on Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest - Establishing the Meaning of Objects in Context, pp. 141-148. Anthropological Research Papers, No. 40: Arizona State University Press. 1989.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • 1989 Keynote Address: Sketch of a Theory for Outdoor History Museums. Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums (ALHFAM), Proceedings of the 1987 Annual Meeting, Vol. X, 1989, pp. 36-46. Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Earth Patterns - Plane and Solid Geometry in Colonial Gardens in Annapolis, Maryland, pp. 153-167. University of Virginia Press. 1990.
  • Great Basin Kingdom Revisited - An Anthropological View of "Great Basin Kingdom," pp. 77-95. Logan: Utah State University Press. 1991.
  • Processual and Postprocessual Archaeologies - Materialist Theory and the Formation of Questions in Archaeology, pp. 235-241. Carbondale, Illinois: Center for Archaeological Investigations. 1991.
  • Quandaries and Quests: Visions of Archaeology's Future - Archaeology in a Democratic Society: A Critical Theory Perspective, pp. 114-134. Carbondale, IL: Center for Archaeological Investigations. 1992.
  • Museums and Communities - Establishing the Roots of Historical Consciousness in Modern Annapolis, Maryland, pp. 476-505. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1992.
  • Representations in Archaeology - Critical Perspectives on Work Concerning Charles Carroll of Carrollton, pp. 151-167. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1992.
  • The Art and Mystery of Historical Archaeology: Essays in honor of James Deetz - The Rationalization of Sound in Mid-eighteenth Century Annapolis, Maryland, pp. 229-245. CRC Press. 1992.
  • History from Things - Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Memory and Subversive Genealogy, pp. 160-181. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1993.
  • 1994 An Archaeology of the DeWitt Wallace Gallery at Colonial Williamsburg. In Museums and the Appropriation of Culture. Pearce, Susan, editor. pp. 198-212. New Jersey: The Anthlone Press.
  • The Historic Chesapeake: Archaeological Contributions - Overview of Archaeological Discoveries in Annapolis Since 1981, pp. 219-229. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1994.
  • Interpretive Archaeologies - Can An African American Historical Archaeology Be An Alternative Voice? pp.110 - 124. Routledge. 1995.
  • The Archaeology in 18th Century Virginia - Taxonomic Description and Questions About Change: Comments on Papers by Norman Barka and Carter Hudgins, pp. 57-64. Special Publication No. 5: Council of Virginia Archaeology and The Archaeological Society of Virginia. 1996.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Tourism and Culture: An Applied Perspective - Tourism with Race in Mind: Annapolis, Maryland Examines African-American Past through Collaborative Research, pp. 129-146. SUNY Press. 1997.
  • Annapolis Pasts - A Street Plan for Hierarchy in Annapolis: In An Analysis of State Circle as a Geometric Form, pp.291-306. University of Tennessee Press. 1998.
  • Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism - Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline, pp.195-216. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers]. 1999.
  • Companion Encyclopedia of Archaeology, ed - Archaeology of the Modern State: European Colonialism, pp. 1107-1158. Routledge. 1999.
  • Archeologia Teorica - L’archeologia Storica Nelle Terre Dei Colonizza (Historical Archaeology in the Land of the Colonizer), pp. 267-280. Florence: Edizoni All’ Insegna del Giglio. 2000.
  • Race and the Archaeology of Identity - Spirit Management among Americans of African Descent, pp. 143-157. University of Utah Press. 2001.
  • The Recovery of Meaning - Where is Culture to be Found by Historical Archaeologists? Prologue, pp v-xxi. Percheron Press. 2003.
  • Essential Tensions in Archaeological Method and Theory - The Origins of Questions in Historical Archaeology, pp. 17-22. University of Utah Press. 2003.
  • Historical Archaeology - Critical Archaeology: Politics Past and Present, pp. 84-104. Blackwells. 2006.
  • Expanding Method and Theory in Americanist Archaeology - How to Work the Past: Middle Range Theory in Historical Archaeology, pp. 21-39. University of Arizona Press. 2007.
  • The Collaborative Continuum: Archaeological Engagements with Descendent Communities - New Africa: Understanding the Americanization of African Descent Groups through Archaeology, pp. 203-223. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press. 2007.
  • Constructing Post-Medieval Archaeology in Italy: A New Agenda - The Role of Theory in Public Archaeology, pp. 35-40. Florence: All’ Insegna del Giglio. 2007.
  • Ethnographic Archaeologies: Reflections on Stakeholders and Archaeological Practices - The Foundations of Archaeology, pp. 119-137. Lanham, MD: Alta Mira Press. 2008.
  • Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia - Annapolis Historic Period Archaeology: The Colonial Archaeology of Maryland’s Capital, pp. 153-155. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 2009.
  • International Handbook of Historical Archaeology - Making Historical Archaeology Postcolonial, pp. 159-168. NY: Springer. 2009.
  • Prophet, Pariah, and Pioneer: Walter W. Taylor and Dissension in American Archaeology - Walter Taylor and the Production of Anger in American Archaeology. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press. 2010.

Refereed journal articles

  • 1968 Neolithic Economic Autonomy and Social Distance. Science 162:1150-1151, 6 December.
  • 1971 Modern American Culture, The Decline of the Future? Journal of Popular Culture IV:4:863-880, Spring. Also in Crisis on Campus, Nye, Russell B., Ray B. Browne, and Michael T. Marsden, editors. Bowling Green University Press, 1971.
  • 1972 The Evolution of Mormon Culture in Eastern Arizona. In Utah Historical Quarterly 40:2:122-141, Spring.
  • 1973 Why the Coalville Tabernacle Had to Be Razed. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 8:2:30-39.
  • 1977 The New Mormon Temple in Washington, D. C. In Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things. Historical Archaeology. Special Publication Series 2:43-61. Reprinted in Sunstone (a Mormon journal), September-October, 1978.
  • 1977 The Role of Primitive Technology in Nineteenth Century American Utopias. 1975 Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, pp. 87-107.
  • 1978 On Text and Interpretation. Current Anthropology 19:3:664-665.
  • 1982 Some Opinions About Recovering Mind. In American Antiquity 47:742-760. Reprinted in Readings in American Archaeological Theory: Antiquity 1962-2000, edited by Garth Bawden. Society for American Archaeology, 2003.
  • 1983 Method as Message. Museum News 62:1:35-41.
  • 1983 The Role of Archaeology in Verifying American Identity. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 2:1:44-50.
  • 1986 Liberation Not Replication: "Archaeology in Annapolis" Analyzed, with Parker B. Potter, Jr. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 76:2:97-105, June 1986.
  • 1987 Toward a Critical Archaeology, with Parker B. Potter, Jr. and Paul A. Shackel. Current Anthropology 28:3:283-302. Reprinted in Interpretive Archaeology, edited by Julian Thomas, pp. 458-473. London: Leicester University Press. 2000.
  • 1988 The Relationship Between Archaeological Data and the Documentary Record: Eighteenth-Century Gardens in Annapolis, Maryland. Historical Archaeology 22:1:29-35.
  • 1989 Issues in Historic Landscapes and Gardens. Historical Archaeology 23:1:45-47.
  • 1990 The Georgian Order in Annapolis, Maryland. With Paul A. Shackel. In New Perspectives on Maryland Historical Archaeology, edited by Richard J. Dent and Barbara J. Little. Maryland Archeology. 26 (1&2): 69-84.
  • 1992 Legitimation and the Classification of Archaeological Sites. With Parker B. Potter, Jr. American Antiquity 57:1:137-145.
  • 1992 Epilogue: The Productive Nature of Material Culture and Archaeology. In Meanings and Uses of Material Culture, edited by Little, Barbara J. and Paul A. Shackel. Historical Archaeology 26:3:130-133.
  • 1995 A Historical Archaeology of Capitalism. American Anthropologist 97(2): 251-268.
  • 1998 Seeing: The Power of Town Planning in the Chesapeake, with Silas D. Hurry. Historical Archaeology, 32:4:34-62.
  • 1999 Conjuring in the Big House Kitchen: An Interpretation of African American Belief Systems, Based on the Uses of Archaeology and Folklore Sources, with Gladys-Marie Fry. Journal of American Folklore, Summer 1999; 112:445:372-403.
  • 2002 The Political Economy of Archaeological Cultures. With Christopher N. Matthews and Kurt Jordan. Journal of Social Archaeology, 2:1:109-134.
  • 2003 Hidden in View: African Spiritual Spaces in North American Landscapes. With Timothy Ruppel, Jessica Neuwirth, and Gladys-Marie Fry. Antiquity. 77: 296: 321-335.
  • 2005 Perspective and Surveillance in Eighteenth-Century Maryland Gardens, Including William Paca’s Garden on Wye Island. With James M. Harmon, and Jessica L. Neuwirth. Historical Archaeology, 39:4: 131-150.
  • 2005 The Archaeology of Black Americans in Recent Times. With Jennifer Babiarz and Cheryl LaRoche. Annual Reviews of Anthropology. 13: 15: 575-599.
  • 2006 Foundational Histories and Power. Archaeological Dialogues 13:2:23-28.
  • 2006 How the Landscape of Fear Works in Spring Valley, a Washington, D.C. Neighborhood. City and Society. XVIII (1). 36-42.
  • 2006 LiDAR for Archaeological Landscape Analysis: A Case Study of Two Eighteenth Century Maryland Plantation Sites. With James M. Harmon, Stephen D. Prince, and Marcia Snyder. American Antiquity 71:4:649-670.
  • 2007 Beginning for a Postmodern Archaeology. In “Revolution Fulfilled? Symbolic and Structural Archaeology a Generation On.” Review Feature: Symbolic and Structural Archaeology edited by Ian Hodder. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 17:4:203-207.
  • 2008 CA Comment on: Time to Destroy. Current Anthropology 49:2:266-267.
  • 2008 Overview, for Review Feature (3 reviews of the “Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis”). Cambridge Archaeological Journal 18:1:102-105.

Honors

References

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